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Date:      Thu, 5 Apr 2001 13:40:44 +0100
From:      Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Brian D. Woodruff" <wood@soundconcept.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Further question Re: cvsupped to RELENG_4 but got 4.3-RC
Message-ID:  <20010405134044.A72405@scientia.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.0.20010404234810.020e2ba0@pop3.norton.antivirus>
References:  <4.3.2.7.0.20010404211832.020c6b60@pop3.norton.antivirus> <4.3.2.7.0.20010404211832.020c6b60@pop3.norton.antivirus> <20010404223544.A13450@peitho.fxp.org> <4.3.2.7.0.20010404234810.020e2ba0@pop3.norton.antivirus>

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Brian D. Woodruff wrote:

> At 10:35 PM 4/4/01 -0400, you wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 09:32:39PM -0500, Brian D. Woodruff wrote:
>>> Here are my questions:
>>>
>>> 1.) is there a way to specify 4.2-STABLE, which is what I have been using?
> 
> excellent answer to part 2
> 
> can anyone tell me how to get the STABLE version I want?

Did you read the first sentence of that FAQ entry?  "Short answer: it's
just a name."

If you cvsup the RELENG_4 branch, you're getting FreeBSD-stable, whether
it be called -STABLE, -RC, -BETA, -FISHCAKE, -UNSTABLE-AS-HELL, or
even -CURRENT if someone felt like playing an April Fool's day joke in
/sys/conf/newvers.sh. :-)

> I would rather be consistent across my servers than have some be one 
> release past the others.

Well if it said 4.2-STABLE and you builtworld on one and not the
others you still wouldn't be consistent, they'd still be different
codebases but with the same name.  If it _really_ bothers you just
change /sys/conf/newvers.sh appropriately so your kernel reports itself
as 4.2-STABLE, if all you want is the same name but different codebases.

-- 
Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D

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